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Finnish regulator to manage 2 govt IT security projects
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Hacked: Sensitive DocumentsLifted from Hadley Climate Center
Well, this should get interesting. The Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain was hacked yesterday, apparently by Russian black hats, and thousands of sensitive documents, including emails from climate scientists dating back a decade, were posted

Finnish regulator to manage 2 govt IT security projects
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Leading British climate centre hacked
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Cyberattacks on U.S. Military Jump Sharply in 2009
Cyberattacks on the U.S. Department of Defense -- many of them coming from China -- have jumped sharply in 2009, a U.S. congressional committee reported Thursday. Citing data provided by the U.S. Strategic Command, the U.S.-China Economic and Security

Author's Site Hacked Following News of Gaza Book Release
Author's Site News of Gaza Book Last Update: 0:40 (Ankara) Friday, 20 November 2009 Author's Site News of Gaza Book an Union With Wednesday, 18 November 2009 Just as news of the early release of a book about Gaza was made public, hackers mobilized,

This climate email-hacking episode is generating more heat than light
Another skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists and so-called sceptics, and this one is likely to lead to more public confusion Another skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists

e-fense, the Developer of the Helix3 Suite of Security Software Announces New Cyber Criminal Investigative Training
-- e-fense is partnering with renowned investigator Charles Tendell, CEO of eCSI to provide training to the computer forensics and cyber security community. With e-fenses extraordinary Helix3 products and eCSIs commitment to share the knowledge in

e-fense, the Developer of the Helix3 Suite of Security Software Announces New Cyber Criminal Investigative Training
e-fense is partnering with renowned investigator Charles Tendell, CEO of eCSI to provide training to the computer forensics and cyber security community. With e-fenses extraordinary Helix3 products and eCSIs commitment to share the knowledge in

SSL/TLS Protocol Flaw Subject to Redirect Attack
A recently-revealed weakness in the SSL3 and TLS protocols for secure networking could allow an attacker, positioned as a "man in the middle," to redirect a client from an https site to other sites, according to research reported in Computerworld. I'm on

Music Hack Day Kicks Off In North America --Boston's Inaugural Event Connects 300 Hackers to Build Next Generation Music Apps
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Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate
An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the email server at a prominent, U.K. climate research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming research and posted them online.

Climatic Research Unit Hacked, Files Leaked
huckamania was one of many readers to write with the news that the University of East Anglia's Hadley Climatic Research Unit was hacked, and internal documents released. Some discussion and analysis of the leaked items can be found at Watts Up With That.

VeriSign (VRSN) NewsBite - VRSN Downgraded By Wedbush Morgan
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New cyber-security data collection center is expected to be a windfall for Utah
Clearly, the new U.S. intelligence-community emphasis on cyber-security will be very good for the economy of at least one state. The State of Utah expects to see $1.5 billion worth of construction, and 4,000 to 5,000 construction and related jobs, from

Three Charged In Comcast.net Hacking
Federal law-enforcement officials charged three men Thursday for 'conspiring to disrupt service' by redirecting visitors to Comcast's broadband portal in May 2008, which authorities said resulted in a loss to the cable operator of approximately $128,000.

5 U.S. Gov Can Stop Only 80% of Cyber-Attacks
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Three charged as Comcast hackers
Three men are accused in federal court of hacking the Comcast Web site. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Christopher Allen Lewis, James Robert Black Jr. alleged to be hackers "EBK" and "Defiant" Pair allegedly hijacked Comcast's domain; Michael Paul Lebel charged with

Hackers enable Atom processor compatibility for Mac OS X 10.6.2
Hackers have circumvented the changes in Mac OS X 10.6.2 to allow the latest upgrade to Apple's Snow Leopard...

Leading British climate centre hacked
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3 charged with hacking Comcast site
Three men have been indicted on charges of hacking into Comcast's e-mail and voice-mail service for its Internet customers during two days last year, federal prosecutors announced today. Using the screen names of Defiant, Slacker and EBK, and associated

Study shows small firms vulnerable to cyber attacks
A new study on Internet security indicates that small businesses are not well-equipped to withstand cyber attacks in the form of phishing, theft of logons and re-sale of data. The survey found that only a fraction of small businesses have formal Internet

Hacker breaks into climate change research institution
An anonymous hacker has broken into the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) and posted over 1000 confidential emails from key climate change scientists online. The emails could prove to be extremely damaging to the reputation of the

Hacker scores by posting East Anglia global warming emails
A That server was quickly shut down but parts of the stolen files have been spread on blogs and other websites. East Anglia admits the theft and re-posting but has not confirmed all the material is genuine. There are the equivalent of thousands of pages

NSA: 80 percent of common cyber attacks preventable
About 80 percent of common cyber attacks could be prevented if network administrators instituted proper configuration policies and did good network monitoring, National Security Agency Information Assurance Director Richard Schaeffer told a Senate panel

Mac OS X 10.6.2 hacked to allow Atom processors
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Comodo Backup Encrypts and Safeguards Data, Optimizes File Space
Dedicated To IT Security Issues, Featuring News, Press Releases, IT Directory & Links Jersey City, NJ, November 03, 2009 - In October, Sidekick users experienced the acute distress of losing their data files—apparently forever. If corporate

Check Point Awarded International Common Criteria EAL4 Certification for Full Disk Encryption
Published 20th November 2009 Check Point data security solutions ensure customers benefit from the highest encryption standard 9 November 2009 - Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced Check

Russian Hacker Fixes Busted Atom Support on Snow Leopard Netbooks
In what's turning out to be a game of cat and mouse, Apple last week disabled support for Intel's Atom processor through a Snow Leopard update, a tactic the Hackintosh community insisted would present only a temporary setback. They were right, thanks to

China Defense Ministry Targeted by Cyber Attacks 2 Million Times
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